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William Hogarth, 1697–1764, British, A Club of Gentlemen, ca. 1730

Creator:: William Hogarth, 1697–1764
formerly Joseph Highmore, 1692–1780
formerly attributed to William Hogarth, 1697–1764
Title:: A Club of Gentlemen
Date:: ca. 1730
Materials & Techniques:: Oil on canvas
Dimensions:: 18 1/2 x 23 inches (47 x 58.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Inscribed in handwriting on the verso, on the central stretcher bar: “…Hogarth was lined Jan/1858. F[?] Wilkinson Bath”
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B1981.25.354
Classification:: Paintings
Collection:: Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:: B1981.25.354FR
Subject Terms:: chairs | club | club (association) | conversation piece | dog (animal) | drinking | food | genre subject | green (color) | interior | man | men | portrait | round | servant | table | white (color)
Access:: Not on view
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:844
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Commissioned by Christopher Cock (d. 1748), one of the sitters, from William Hogarth (1697-1764), the artist; acquired by Christopher Cock’s business partner Abraham Langford (1711-1774) of London; by descent to his son Abraham Langford (1751-1817) of London; by descent to his son Salisbury Langford Salisbury (1779-1849), of Frome, Somerset; by descent to his son Salisbury Langford Salisbury (1831-1892) of Frome, Somerset; by descent to his son Thomas Hugh Langford-Sainsbury (1869-1927), of Beckington, Somerset; by inheritance to his wife Emma Harriot Langford-Sainsbury (1865-1946) of Beckington, Somerset; sold by her executors, 1947 (sale not traced); acquired by C. Marshall Spink by 1949 [a]; acquired by James Hamilton, Esq.; purchased by M. Bernard, Ryder Street, London, at Sotheby’s, London, ‘Eighteenth and nineteenth century drawings and paintings’, July 15, 1959 (lot 133); acquired by Arthur Tooth & Sons, by December 1959 [b]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907-1999), May 1960 [c]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981.

Citations:
[a] See Ronald Brymer Becket, Hogarth, London, 1949, plate 20
[b] Elizabeth Einberg, William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, London, 2016, p. 26 no. 10
[c] Ibid

William Hogarth - A Selection of Painting from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1971-02-12 - 1971-05-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Frederick Antal, Hogarth and his place in European art., Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1962, pp. 26, 42, pl. 28b, NJ18 H67 A63 (YCBA) [YCBA]

John Baskett, Painting in England: 1700-1850: the collection of English paintings formed by Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon : on exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, until August 18th, , Connoisseur, Vol. 153, London, June 1963, p. 101, N1 C75 + (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ronald Brymer Beckett, Hogarth, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1949, p. 41, pl. 20, NJ18 H67 B43 1949 [ORBIS]

British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 255, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ching-Jung Chen, The early Georgian conversation piece : Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, UMI Dissertation Services, Ann Arbor, 2001, pp. 303, 392, 467-69, cat. no. 101, Available online : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses [ORBIS]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 122-123, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Ralph Edwards, Georgian Conversation Pictures, Apollo, v.105, no. 182, April 1977, p. 255, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA) Another copy of this article may be found in a separately bound and catalogued copy of this issue located on the Mellon Shelf [call number : N5220 M552 A7 1977 + (YCBA)] [YCBA]

Elizabeth Einberg, William Hogarth : A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, New Haven, London, 2016, p. 27, cat. 10, , NJ18 H67 +E36 2016 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

William Rummel Francis, William Hogarth : A Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Prints at the Virginia Museum, , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA., January 30-March 5, 1967, p. 19, no. 12, NJ18 H67 +F72 1967 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, pp. 211,212,214, fig. 3, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

William Hogarth, Anecdotes of William Hogarth, written by himself, with essays on his life and genius, and criticisms on his works, selected from Walpole, Gilpin, J. Ireland, Lamb, Phillips, and others. To which are added a catalogue of his prints; account of their variat, Cornmarket Press, London, 1970, p.371, NJ18 H67 A3 1833A (YCBA) Reprint of the 1833 ed.; copies of 1833 edition held by Bass, LWL; LSF [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 111 (v.1), no. 211, pl. 113, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 4 (v.1), no. 9, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Kate Retford, The Conversation Piece Making Modern Art in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2017, p. 277, fig. 207, ND1314.4 .R48 2017 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]

William Hogarth : A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon., , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 1971, pp. 39, pl. 5, NJ18 H67 U53 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, pp. 31-32 (v.1), no. 109, ND466 Y35 (YCBA) [YCBA]

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